The complaint filed with the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana on behalf of an unnamed woman and her 8-year-old son asks a federal judge to shut down the program and bar the school district from providing it with any support.

The boy attends Horace Mann Elementary School, which offers third- and fourth-grade students a “release time” program called By the Book Weekday Religious Instruction through the Associated Churches of Huntington.

Huntington’s program is voluntary. Classes meet once a week in mobile trailers near school buildings, and children who don’t participate remain in their classrooms with school staff, according to a brochure for the program filed with the lawsuit. Students who do not participate receive no school programming during the release time.

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Does this school have a library? What’s wrong with the kid getting a library book and reading it during the time other kinds voluntarily go to this class?

I think too many people are focusing on separating church and state and in doing so they are unraveling the morale fibers that keep our society in a category of lesser crime.

I know many people who aren’t “religious” but see the Bible as a “good book” that teaches us to have morals and values – what’s wrong with a little encouragement when it comes to that?

Especially when the kids are in elementary school while personalities are still being developed?

I think too many parents are just sue happy and judges that allow such lawsuits to proceed should be kicked from the bench or relinquish their pay to help cover the cost stupid crimes have on taxpayers.

Just sayin’

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Parent sues schools for religious-education course

The truth was bound to come out –

Maddox 6, is constantly pushing Pax, 4, around in an attempt to show him who’s boss, says a source. “But Pax is no wimp, and he fights back.” But it’s little Zahara, 3, who really rules the roost! “She screams and shouts at the boys when she doesn’t get her way,” says the source. Not even Shiloh, 22 months, is safe — and the toddler has the battle scars to prove it. “Z is always pushing or scratching her… Z once clawed Shiloh’s cheek after she tried to take her cookie. She’s always pulling on Shiloh’s hair so she can steal her food.” And little Shiloh has more than her hair to worry about! Recently while Shiloh’s three older siblings roughhoused, she got knocked down and chipped a tooth!

It sounds to me, as if Brangelina could use a nice long visit from Supernanny and need to consider hanging up the idea of adopting more children or giving birth to any.

It’s not like these kids are accessories – I can’t imagine that parents as famous and humanitarian as these two could possibly have the time or energy to raise children the way they should be.

Why isn’t there a top notch nanny that’s intervening to prevent broken teeth and clawed cheeks?

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Brangelina Needs Supernanny, Not More Kids!

Vaughn claims he has picked up useful parenting tips from the famous child expert Jo Frost and puts them to the test when he babysits his three nieces and nephew.

He says, “You watch the show, these kids are terrors. They’re hopped up, they’ve been eating candy. The nanny comes in. Naughty step, boundaries, everyone hugs each other, the chauffeur drives her away.

It’s an amazing thing.”

Tags: supernanny, jo frost, vince vaughn, babysitting, child care

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Vince Vaughn is a SuperNanny Fan

The former nanny to Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall dies of lung cancer and she never smoked a day in her life.

I’m wondering, are you thinking what I’m thinking?

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Mick Jagger Nanny Dies of Lung Cancer

I have to admit, I can relate to some of Mira’s concerns. My brother and I had a babysitter when we were very young who scared us, would beat us with fly-swatters and would lock my brother out in the cold in nothing but his underpants.

Mira Sorvino vets her children’s babysitters very carefully after the German minder who looked after her as a child scared the actress with her thoughts about the Holocaust.

The Oscar winner and her husband Christopher Backus feel they’ve found the perfect babysitter for their two kids, three-year-old Mattea Angel and 18-month-old Johnny Christopher King, because she’s nothing like the misguided nanny who used to look after Sorvino.

She recalls, “I actually had a very strange experience when I read The Diary of Anne Frank as a child.

“We had a German housekeeper babysitting for us, and when I’d finished the book, I was crying. In an effort to comfort me, she told me, ‘Oh no, this is all lies. Many more Germans died than Jews. Only 600,000 (Jews died), not six million. It’s lies, all lies.’ “She was completely indoctrinated in a denial of the Holocaust. It was very, very scary.”

It’s amazing at just how much of an impact the bad experiences mold our adult life and choices when it comes to our own children.

Do you find there are childhood experiences that influence your decision making?

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Childhood Experiences Mold Nanny Selection Process for Oscar Winning Actress

Reports were floating around Thursday that Jackson had married 40-year-old Grace Rwaramba, the nanny of his three children, in Las Vegas earlier this year.

“Wide spreading reports regarding Michael Jackson being married are not true. Documents stating otherwise are a hoax,” Jackson spokeswoman Raymone Bain told “Access.”

I have to admit, I found it difficult to believe Jacko would be married to anyone. While there are many things I believe this man could be capable of, marriage is not one of them.

The two previous were for publicity stunts – but to marry someone that serves no purpose? Nahh!

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Michael Jackson Didn’t Marry His Nanny

Regardless, kudos to the judge for being insightful enough to take the children into account and not their mommy’s pocketbook.

Full details of the court order:

Check out what Tracee from BlogFabulous has to say about Britney running around the house naked!

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Britney Spears Parenting Bombshell

In a new U.S. magazine article, the unnamed former nanny of Denise Richards claims the actress, who is now divorced from ex-husband Charlie Sheen, sleeps with 14 dogs, guzzles coffee she imports from Hawaii and changes from pleasant to unpleasant in an instant. But Richards’ spokeswoman Jill Fritzo has jumped to the actress’ defence, insisting, “The story is untrue.” The former nanny alleges Richards is prone to “temper changes,” adding she’s “irritable” and “can’t focus.” She tells the Star, “In the morning, she’s sweet and friendly, but… by one o’clock, she seems wired and confused. She changes plans from one minute to the next. “She’d tell me, ‘(Daughter) Lola needs to sleep at this time,’ and then changes her mind. She’d tell me to pick up the kids at school and then say, ‘I’m going to go, I have the time.’”

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To be honest, that sounds a lot like any mother of toddlers to preschoolers. But what do I know?

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Denise Richards former nanny claims the actress is a moody ‘Jekyll and Hyde’

Brooke Shields has put the blame on bad parenting for so many young celebrities going off the rails and getting themselves into legal troubles.

The actress has claimed stars like Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton would behave better if they had been correctly brought up.

It’s funny that one of Hollywoods most watched mothers is speaking out against the way that today’s young stars are being parented. I remember when I was a teen, parents were furious over the acting that Brooke herself was doing saying her mother was the negligent parent.

It’s nice to see that Brooke has such strong ethics when it comes to her own little ones.

Do you agree with Brooke? Do you think if actresses like Lindsay, Britney and Paris would have been raised differently, they might be behave better? Or would they end up rebelling against the rules that would have been enforced?

Honestly, I’m thinking it’s a double edged sword. Some people can handle stardom at an early age, some can’t.

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Shields blames parents for troubled stars

Drinking in front of the kids? Stripping in front of the staffers? Kevin Federline has been collecting stories from Britney Spears’ employees about her alleged bad parenting and her nannies have plenty to say.

This kind of stuff breaks my heart. Someone needs to step up and give Britney a hefty dose of tough love or she’s going to end up a candle in the wind – just like Monroe.

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Britney Spears Nannies Tell All